Our apartment building has a small table by the loading dock where people can put things they don’t need/want anymore. I’ve put a lot of stuff there! Also, I’ve seen a lot of weird stuff there. No one wants your used up ugly old shoes, ma’am! Or your night table missing its drawers!

Shrayber ungreyed me on his very last post here because he offered and I asked. It’s just dumb luck, really.

I think he’s dialed down his style. This is what he looks like when I’ve seen him:

A few years ago I saw someone saying they’ve always believed the Property Brothers are the incest twins from this Dear Prudence letter, and somehow it just fit.

Having him stay with family, who he’s presumably met before and who you trust, is totally different than giving them to a shelter where they may be put to sleep, adopted and abused, or just left sitting lonely for months or years.

In my city something like twenty-percent of the housing is pet-friendly (or at least dog-friendly), and generally the cheapest options are not pet-friendly. So I end up having to pay maybe a hundred or two more dollars a month for my dog. BUT she is my dog and it’s not her fault my real estate market is like this -…

I mean, yes, right? If you come to the point where you’re asking seriously if there’s incest, there’s definitely incest.

Whoops, didn’t realize you were dumb. Sorry, I wrote my comment for people who are able to parse the distinction between “feminist and scholar” and “feminist scholar.” If you’re so uninformed and ignorant as to think there’s no such thing as a “feminist scholar,” obviously you can’t parse it.

Honestly, you must have had to try really hard to misread my comment so thoroughly. A feminist who is a scholar is different from a feminist scholar. A scholar who is feminist is different from a feminist scholar. An anti-racist scholar who is a feminist is different from a feminist scholar. Conflating the two, in a…

WhippingPost, I’m trying to understand what you’re talking about. You said

Thanks for the links. I was aware of the 1998 trial, but I didn’t know that it claimed that the government was involved in a conspiracy to assassinate him because of his socialism and the Poor People’s Movement.

Okay, I just went back and watched Killer Mike’s speech instead of just reading the quotes, and I’m still not sure what you mean. What is the critique I’m supposed to launch? Who am I supposed to launch it at?

I’m not hiding behind POC. I’m trying to provide nuance and context to the discussion.

I think what she said was weird and gross, and I certainly wouldn’t describe children publicly as superpredators - that language is dehumanizing and, as you point out, a dog-whistle. Talking about bringing them to heel is even worse. It’s possibly worth noting, however, that the term “superpredator” was not invented…

My results were something like 94% Bernie, 93% Hillary. It’s tough, man!

Lol I actually had a fairly traumatic experience with family on that whole “black people are voting for Obama because he’s black” tip. I mad eht mistake of replying-all to an insane email forward about it, and I wrote this long, (to my mind) thoughtful, well-reasoned argument about how even if people were voting for…

Okay, looks like we have to agree to disagree on that point, but that’s fine.

I’m not sure what you mean?

I never said Jane Elliot might not be a feminist. I said describing her as a feminist scholar, when all of her career that I was able to find was on anti-racism, is disingenuous in the context of her comments and the current controversy about them. That’s cool that you found a review of a feminist book she wrote, but…

Whoever seeks to dramatically increase the minimum wage and near-minimum wages (most of which are held by women) is helping feminism the most. Whoever seeks to overthrow the lobbyists and corporate entities—who consistently empower the elite to maintain control over the powerless—is helping feminism the most.